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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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Heaven bless the babe!” they said.“What queer books she must have read!”(Love, by whom I was beguiled,Grant I may not bear a child.) “Little does she guess to-dayWhat the world may be!” they say.(Snow, drift deep and coverTill the spring my murdered lover.)
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